I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started machine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515736 315068 200668 0 14004 151484 -/+ buffers/cache: 149580 366156 Swap: 506008 0 506008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515736 509664 6072 0 648 53996 -/+ buffers/cache: 455020 60716 Swap: 506008 88732 417276 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515736 509204 6532 0 2136 32340 -/+ buffers/cache: 474728 41008 Swap: 506008 264072 241936 After another 15 mins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515736 509720 6016 0 2932 38076 -/+ buffers/cache: 468712 47024 Swap: 506008 397072 108936
Any comments. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042